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Trump has been consumed by Russia probewas "100% focused" on it during foreign trip; barely practiced Muslim speech
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Mr. Trump has previously queried advisers about major changes, only to stick by his current staff and leave in place internal processes. But as he prepares to return from the nine-day foreign trip on Sunday, the situation back home is threatening to consume his administration, his allies said. Before he left, the Justice Department appointed former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee the probe, which is focused on any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election and may also include looking into the firing of Mr. Comey earlier this month.
Hes 100% focused on this, said a White House official, noting that the president slept only two hours in Saudi Arabia the night before his widely-anticipated speech on Islam that he spent little time rehearsing.
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One major change under consideration would vet the presidents social media posts through a team of lawyers, who would decide if any needed to be adjusted or curtailed. The idea, said one of Mr. Trumps advisers, is to create a system so that tweets dont go from the presidents mind out to the universe.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyeing-white-house-shakeup-1495831679
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Trump consumed by Russia probe-was "100% focused" on it during foreign trip; barely practiced (Original Post)
kpete
May 2017
OP
If the idiot doesn't know what he should tweet or not how can he handle the nuclear codes
MattP
May 2017
#2
Being President means sometimes you need to focus on more than one thing at a time.
wildeyed
May 2017
#4
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)1. Why so worried if not guilty?
underpants
(182,996 posts)5. If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to worry about
That's one of the sayings these highly educated super achievers must have never heard.
The other is - that's my story and I'm sticking with it. Trump keeps screwing that up himself.
kskiska
(27,051 posts)6. Besides
It's all fake news.
MattP
(3,304 posts)2. If the idiot doesn't know what he should tweet or not how can he handle the nuclear codes
louis-t
(23,309 posts)3. They have to coddle and babysit him every day.
His '100% focus' is him trying to figure out who to blame, how to deflect, how to distract, what lies he should tell this week.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)4. Being President means sometimes you need to focus on more than one thing at a time.
Who knew?
FSogol
(45,580 posts)7. Trumpy's gonna rearrange the deck chairs on the Titantic....again!
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)8. He's guilty, of course.
You don't fire the head of the FBI and ask NSA and CIA to squash the probe if you are innocent.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)9. Why????
If there is nothing there??